CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN

In a country where 3,000 children are born every hour, the fact that children go missing hardly matters. Parents of these missing children say that they get little or no help from the police. In India 370 children go missing every day.
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It is Children's Day. As the nation celebrates the day, there is a need to analyse the real state of affairs that the children in the country face. CNN-IBN asks whether Indian schools are good enough.
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Pushed to the corner by the Bharatiya Janata Party and with the Congress eyeing the space of the main opposition party in Maharashtra Assembly, the Shiv Sena was on Monday forced to stake claim to the Leader of Opposition post in the newly elected 288-member House.
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The Karnataka CM has ordered a task force that will be set up to monitor cases of child abuse and their trials. Parents continued their protests outside the school where the latest incident of rape was alleged.
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The teacher accused of sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl in a reputed Bangalore school has been arrested by the police on Friday. Police arrested the 40-year-old after interrogating him in the case. This is the fourth such incident reported from Bangalore where minor girls have been targeted and that too...

Anxious parents gathered outside the Bangalore school where a three-year-old was allegedly raped, questioning how the school can reopen without a go-ahead. The school has reopened on Monday after Diwali. While classes from the 1st to 5th standard have opened, there is no clarity on when classes 6th and 7th...

The abuse of a 13yearold girl as a domestic help in Bangalore has blown the lid off of many welleducated, highincome families trafficking young girls and boys from North India as house helps. CNNIBN takes calls from across the country and asks whether urban India treats their domestic helps as...

A couple was arrested in Bangalore on Saturday for allegedly brutally assaulting their 13yearold domestic help who has suffered severe head injuries and multiple abrasions all over her body because of the regular beating. HoD of Paediatric Department Gangadhar Belavadi said, " she is being treated for two fresh injuries....

Even as Bangalore comes to terms with the twists and turns in the 6yearold's gangrape, another horrific case came to light. A 7yearold was raped by her school atendant's son in another corner of the city a week ago. The two cases have put Bangalore on tenterhooks. According to a...

Two sisters in Gujarat have alleged that their father repeatedly raped them for years. The elder daughter claims that his father raped her for three years and thereafter also assaulted the younger daughter.
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Incidents of child abuse have risen significantly. In recent days, media reports have been suggesting a spurt on cases of child molestation. From neighbours allegedly abusing kids as young as threeyears to teachers molesting students in classrooms such incidents have not only brought shame to the society but also...

CNN-IBN investigation exposes how minor girls are sold as domestic labour to illegal placement agencies which in turn run trafficking racket. The investigation exposes how minor girls are trafficked from rural India and sold in metros.
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Two constables of the Delhi police have been dismissed from duty for reportedly sexually assaulting a minor girl. The incident took place on Saturday when the reportedly picked up the minor girl and two of her friends and lured them to a house on the pretext of giving them money....

Lawyer of the victim, Manish Vyas, has alleged that a threat was issued to a friend of the victim's father asking him to withdraw the statements of her daughter against Asaram. Asaram has been alleged by a 15-year-old girl in a sexual assault case.
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said that there is no law and order issues in the state after arrest of Asaram in the sexual assault case. He said, "Previously when we arrested Praveen Togadia similar questions were raised on law and order situation but nothing happened. There is...

Asaram's lawyer Push Karan Bhandari has said, "There is no mention of scratch in girl's medical report. The girl underwent the medical examination herself and the report can't be ignored." Asaram has been alleged by a 15-year-old girl for sexually assaulting her.
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Residents of Indore who are afraid of any untoward incident in the wake of the controversy over self-styled godman Asaram, demand quick action by the police. Questioning the role of Asaram, they say that he should come out in the open if he is innocent.
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A team of the Rajasthan Police will head to Bhopal to arrest self-styled godman Asaram after he failed to produce himself before the Jodhpur police for questioning in the sexual assault case, said Jodhpur DCP Ajay Lamba.
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Congress leader Rashid Alvi on Thursday termed Asaram's allegations baseless. He said if Rahul and Sonia would have been behind his sexual assualt case, then he would have been in the jail. Asaram held Congress President Sonia Gandhi and his son Rahul Gandhi responsible for his present state of affairs.
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Self-styled godman Asaram on Wednesday wrote a letter to Jodhpur police seeking more time to appear before it in the sexual assault case of a 15-year-old girl. This comes after Jodhpur police rejected Asaram's request for more time.
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A fiveyearold girl, who was raped by a 35yearold man in Ghansore town of Seoni, died in a hospital in Nagpur on Monday evening. Her doctor said her condition was deteriorating and she died of a cardiac arrest.
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